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Vendors were chasing down approvals for weeks.
The bottleneck: invoices landed in a shared inbox, and someone had to log into a system, find the right record, and click approve. With a busy team, that step got delayed constantly.
I built a one-click email approval flow. When a new invoice comes in, an automated email goes to the approver with a summary and two buttons: Approve or Reject. No login. No navigating to another system. One click from their inbox and it's done.
The click triggers a webhook that updates the invoice status, notifies the vendor, and logs the decision with a timestamp.
The client went from average 6-day approval cycles to same-day for anything under a threshold. The approvers barely noticed they were using a new system — it just showed up in their email like everything else.
That's usually the goal: make the automation feel invisible. The less friction, the higher the adoption.
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